BISHOPS STORTFORD, England- Dotmatics, a leading provider of informatics solutions for pharma, biotech, chemical, agrochemical and academic industries, announced today that registration is now open for their User Group Meeting (UGM)..

A recently released report from technology research company Gartner has confirmed that PerkinElmer Inc. continues to be a leader in the Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) field achieving the highest ratings of the 34 ELN vendors in the report.

Martin Baker, the founder and CEO of The Charity Learning Consortium, has pledged to help raise the profile of the eLearning Network in 2012 - its 25th anniversary year - after being voted onto the board.

In the space of just a few years, Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) have transitioned from their fledgling state as a technology deployed only by early adopters and gadget enthusiasts to their position as a mainstream informatics platform.

While the vast majority of companies are keen to adopt Electric Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) in areas ranging from formulation, bioanalytics and R&D, there remain a number of challenging aspects preventing many from achieving a 'paperless lab' ideal.

While the vast majority of companies are keen to adopt Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) in areas ranging from formulation, bioanalytics and R&D, there remain challenging aspects preventing many from achieving the 'paperless lab' ideal.

Jeremy Frey, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Southampton, UK, joins John Trigg, Director of phaseFour Informatics, to discuss Increasing the Semantic Capabilities of Your ELN to Capture More Complete Data.

The LIMSforum (limsforum.com) is now the largest user group for laboratory, science and health informatics software, far outstripping any others in just one year. Membership is free and automatic, which the industry seems to find refreshing.